Was i the only person with an amiga CD32?

FearDark

Hey just lookin through the threads and i remembered i had an amiga cd32, loved it until the power supply melted on it! I have never met another person with one of these consoles and when i mention it to people theyre like"your crazy that was never a console!". I always liked to be different, when people were buying megadrives and snes's i had a CD32, then a saturn and a dreamcast lol! Anyway anyone have a CD32? I had about 40 games for it, microcosm, pirates gold, lost vikings, morph, fury of the furries, bubba and stix, GUARDIAN!! What an awesome console now that i think of it!

Tom Dunne

If you think you are bad, I have to be the only plonker in the country who bought the Amiga CDTV.

Though I loved it.

CiDeRmAn

I remember them both, but as a poor student couldn't afford them, sigh...

I do want, no make that NEED a CD32 in my collection, so if you still got one, pass it on!

I remember the fighter jet demo running in the crappy computer dept upstairs in Clearys, deary deary me, I remember the place 'cos that's where I picked up The Need For Speed for my 3DO!

FearDark

He he, i wish i still had one The power supply melted at a mates house and i remember his dad (an electrician) tried for hours to bring it back from the dead! Those were the days where the only way of getting another power supply was to actually hop on a boat to England and buy one The CD32 has decent a emulator though Fantastic console, I had over 100 games between the CD32 and the Dreamcast, not bad eh! Now i have a bog laptop cos im a poor bum student and had to sell my 360 aah

monkeyfudge

I had one. But I picked it up cheap shortly after it had flopped.

You used to be able to get the games fairly cheap upstairs there in Clearys.

The control pad was horrible.

FearDark

monkeyfudge wrote: »

The control pad was horrible.

Aah, yeah i remember the first time i played it my buddy came over and kicked my ass at ultimate body blows, until i realised i had the controller upside-down lol!

daedalus2097

Lol, the controller's actually decent enough apart from the shockingly bad D-pad. Mind you, that's a pretty important aspect to have messed up

cL0h

FearDark wrote: »

He he, i wish i still had one The power supply melted at a mates house and i remember his dad (an electrician) tried for hours to bring it back from the dead! Those were the days where the only way of getting another power supply was to actually hop on a boat to England and buy one The CD32 has decent a emulator though Fantastic console, I had over 100 games between the CD32 and the Dreamcast, not bad eh! Now i have a bog laptop cos im a poor bum student and had to sell my 360 aah

You more than likely could have gotten one by mail order. That's how most people I know bought their games back in the days of the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC 464. From the ads in magazines like "Computer and Video Games". You could also write to the manufacturers in those days and they would do their best to help you. these days support consists of filling out a form on a website and it being ignored.

norrie rugger

Was their slogan not
"To be this good will take SEGA AGES"

Doctor DooM

norrie rugger wrote: »

Was their slogan not
"To be this good will take SEGA AGES"

No, that would be Sega, strangely enough. Not that their cd based consoles faired much better, although the games on Dreamcast rock.

norrie rugger

SDooM wrote: »

No, that would be Sega, strangely enough. Not that their cd based consoles faired much better, although the games on Dreamcast rock.

I can just about remember amiga pulling the piss out of Sega with that one.

Sega's was "to be this good takes Sega"
and i think that Amiga came out with the CD32 and said "to be this good will take Sega Ages"

daedalus2097

Yeah that was Commodore's cheeky slogan (read it again carefully SDooM), and what's more they put it on a billboard just outside Sega's headquarters for added effect.

97i9y3941

i have cd32 myself works perfectly,although sometimes wish i should had got A1200 instead since you can expand it,yes i know you can expand the cd32 but the sx1 expansion is rare enough

free games

norrie rugger wrote: »

Was their slogan not
"To be this good will take SEGA AGES"

lol hilarious

97i9y3941

considering that the cd32 was more powerful than the mega cd,it should had poundered the mega cd to death,just the lack of sega type games on the cd32 killed it,also considering the cd32 had 2mb memory(since it was really an A1200) it was too small to take advantage of cd exculsive titles,also giving alot of cd32 games where straight port of floppy ones